This Taking Points Memo post is exactly right:
"The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change. It matters more because the ability to move forward in these other civil rights struggles depends first and foremost upon control of the Court. And control for the next generation is about to be up for grabs, likely in the next presidential election, a point many on the right but few on the left seem to have recognized."
"When the next President of the United States assumes office on January 20, 2017, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be nearly 84, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will be over 80, and Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78. Although many Justices have served on the Court into their 80s and beyond, the chances for all of these Justices remaining through the next 4 or 8 years of the 45th President are slim. Indeed, the next president will likely make multiple appointments to the Court."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause
"If a Republican were to take the White House you forget about all these civil rights concerns as they'd all be in peril. This is a SJC that has already voted to gut the Voting Rights Act. What happens if the balance in the Court goes from 5-4 conservatives to 6-3 or 7-2?"
If you accept that the most important thing is electing a Democrat to the White House, all the fighting over Bernie Sanders makes no sense.
"The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change. It matters more because the ability to move forward in these other civil rights struggles depends first and foremost upon control of the Court. And control for the next generation is about to be up for grabs, likely in the next presidential election, a point many on the right but few on the left seem to have recognized."
"When the next President of the United States assumes office on January 20, 2017, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be nearly 84, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will be over 80, and Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78. Although many Justices have served on the Court into their 80s and beyond, the chances for all of these Justices remaining through the next 4 or 8 years of the 45th President are slim. Indeed, the next president will likely make multiple appointments to the Court."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause
"If a Republican were to take the White House you forget about all these civil rights concerns as they'd all be in peril. This is a SJC that has already voted to gut the Voting Rights Act. What happens if the balance in the Court goes from 5-4 conservatives to 6-3 or 7-2?"
If you accept that the most important thing is electing a Democrat to the White House, all the fighting over Bernie Sanders makes no sense.
My trouble with the Sanders' folks is they seem not to agree that the most important thing is to elect a Democrat. In their mind most important is a beauty contest to see who is the most progressive between Hillary and Bernie.
There is this idea that it's an awful thing that the Democrats don't' have more candidates and more debates. Why is that? I guess the feeling is that its undemocratic to have a 'coronation.'
But if that's so why is this not a worry in years the incumbent President runs? If most everyone in the party coalesces around a candidate early this isn't undemocratic but consensus.
There is this idea that it's an awful thing that the Democrats don't' have more candidates and more debates. Why is that? I guess the feeling is that its undemocratic to have a 'coronation.'
But if that's so why is this not a worry in years the incumbent President runs? If most everyone in the party coalesces around a candidate early this isn't undemocratic but consensus.
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